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XXIV.--FLOWERS.
Very beautiful--Their names given to Stars and to Women--Flower language: long conversations carried on by means of Flowers--Instances of Flower Language--Displeasure expressed through the medium of Flowers--Instances of Flowers with meanings attached
XXV.--FLOWERS IMPROVED BY ELECTRICITY.
Mode in which nature operates--Vitality of seed--Consequence of injury--Production of leaves--Of colour--United electricities form gatherings--Important discovery--Sap, the reservoir of electricity--PROCESS FOR CHANGING FORM--PROCESS FOR CHANGING COLOUR--For giving fragrance--THE LUANIA--SUN-FORCING
XXVI.--SONG OF ADMIRATION.
(_Explanation of terms used in the Song of Admiration._)
The Spangled Mountain--The reviled beauty--Slander and its promulgators--The Legend of Zacosta--Fall of her Tormentors--Happiness of the higher order of Spirits--Slander regarded with horror--Motives of the Slanderers--The King of the Air--The loving little animal--The ingenious instrument for discovering diamonds--The pet animal--The Meleeta--The Turvee Insect--Shooting Stars--Whale Electricity--The Martolooti--The Flower of Grace--The Chilarti--The Allmanyuka--The perfume of the everlasting gulf--The Hippopotamus hide--Fat of the Serpent's head--The Mestua Mountain--Wet thy feet--Stainers' fount-- Water--The Mountain Supporter
XXVII.--SYLIFA.
XXVIII.--THE YOUNG GIRL RESTORED.
Madness not formerly recognised until violence shown--The GIRL AFFECTED WITH MONOMANIA.
XXIX.--THE LITTLE GOATHERD.
XXX.--DECORATIONS FOR AGE AND MERIT.
Worn as distinctive marks--Age entitles woman to privileges--Age regarded as an honour--Orders of the Matterode, and Mountain Supporter--Qualified decoration, &c.--ADVOCATES of the individual and of society--Privilege belonging to every woman
XXXI.--BEAUTY.
How ideal of beauty formerly obtained--Not equal to the actual living model--Beauty now the rule--Longevity--Beauty in old age--Summary of expedients--Value of the course adopted--Importance of care from earliest infancy--Subject of babies--Importance of little things--Maladies owing to injudicious treatment of children--March of "small" effects--Precautions now taken
XXXII.--INFANTS' EXERCISE-MACHINES.
Value of minute precautions--Diseases caused by want of healthy exercises--Accidents to the infant--Blows on the head--The inventions of Drahna--The four sets of machines--The TEETH--The eye--The nostrils--The tongue--Air, &c.
XXXIII.--GYMNASTICS.
An essential part of the boys' education--Formerly same exercises for all--Now adapted to physical organization--Medical man observes effects--The heat of the brain a test--Bathing--Leaping--TREE-EARTH BATHS--Qualities of the earth about various trees--The oak, the weeping-willow, elm, horse-chestnut, &c.
XXXIV.--THE AMUSEMENT GALLERY.
Description--Girls' amusement gallery--Boys--Different natures and characters revealed--The Character-divers
XXXV.--PRAYER.
For Children are short--Services adapted to different ages--Evils attendant on former system--Present course--Subjects of Sermons-- Children encouraged in affection to Parents, &c.--Preacher assisted by method of education--Objections to Parrot-like repetitions
XXXVI.--FLOCKS AND HERDS.
Care taken of animals--Change of pasture--Irrigation--Causes of diseases formerly prevalent--Shade--Illness--Great increase of flocks and herds--THE MALE ONLY USED FOR FOOD--Consequences of killing the mother--In slaughtering, all painful process avoided--Mode adopted--Wholesomeness of meat tested by analyzation of blood--PROTECTION OF MEAT FROM INSECTS--Protective Infusion--CRUELTY TO ANIMALS--Punishment
XXXVII.--THE ALLMANYUKA.
Determination to discover the germ of disease--The people afflicted with a painful malady--Children not attacked--Hypothesis--Stimulating spices--Anatomical examination--Decree forbidding use of favourite condiments--The spices collected--Temporary substitute provided--Meditation and prayer for help--The grafting and the eventual result-- Incomplete--The cream-lemon vegetable--Mode of proceeding--The "Insertion"--The root-oil--The little white bud--The anxious watching--The basket and its contents--The testing--Qualities of the Allmanyuka--The people's praise--The Tootmanyoso's gratitude--Results different from any before obtained--Description
XXXVIII.--PAPER.
Made from leaves of trees--Peculiarities--Process of manufacture-- Healthful fragrance--Colour--"Natural" paper--GOLDEN COLOURED PAPER--Its connection with the Allmanyuka--The incident which led to its discovery
XXXIX.--CONSUMPTION--THE ��MEUTE.
Consumption--Why generally beyond cure--Erroneous views--The patient--Examination by the doctors--Their mistake--Narrator's belief--Potion administered--Death--Cause discovered--Mode of detecting and curing the disease in its germ--Assemblage of the multitude--Episode of the mother and the child--The sequel
XL.--THE HARP.
The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of chords--Strings of electricity--Marvellous variation and depression of the notes--Echoes and responses--Diapason changed to an extraordinary extent--Different characters of sound produced--Examples--Harp language; how taught--Accompaniments--Harp beautiful as a work of sculptural art--Movement of birds, flowers, and foliage, and exhalation of perfume in accord with the music--How idea was suggested
XLI.--SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
Amusements enjoined--Learned men prone to seclusion--Wisdom of requiring studious men to cultivate social relations questioned--Twenty men selected for the experiment--Result--The works of the "Seclusionists" and of the "Society-Sympathisers"--The MONOMANIAC--His eccentricities and cure--Convert to the Narrator's views
XLII.--THEATRES--ENTERTAINMENTS.
Arenas--Electricity--Why arenas open to the sky--Games exhibited-- Beautiful effects produced--MAN and HORSE--The FLYING CHILDREN--WILL--DEAF AND DUMB CHILD--The MONKEYS--Tragic Drama--Races and public games--Parties for children--Labouring people--The aged--Districts--The middle-aged--INTRODUCTION of strangers--Ceremony observed--ATTRACTING-MACHINE
XLIII--SHIPS.
Peculiar form and construction--Former shape--Effective model sought--"Swan Ships"--Dangers of navigation--Ship sometimes submerged--Sufferings of the passengers for want of air--Remedy--The swan's head--Captain's quarters--Vessels propelled by electric power--Machinery--Steering and stoppage of the vessel--TIMBER FOR SHIPS--How seasoned--How protected against insects in every part--The COMPASS--The ANCHOR--Peculiarity of its formation: how let out and hauled in--The Bison ropes
XLIV.--PICTURES FROM WATER.
Interesting discoveries--Microscopic pictures transmitted from a distance--Picture made of a landscape and persons afar off--Picture of swan-vessels and passengers--How effected--Bottom of the sea rendered visible
XLV.--THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.
Invaluable--Antipathy to human beings--Hippopotamus' hide--Impervious to water--Resistance to destroying forces--All parts of the animal utilised--Parts subservient to the beautiful--Hippopotamus' land--Numerous herds--Their keepers--How attired--The herb antipathetic to hippopotami--How discovered--Experiment with the young beast--Antipathetic solution keeps animals away from cities--They love fresh-water rivers--The Aoe waters prejudicial to man--Mode of rearing Hippopotami--Precautions adopted--Why they have not been able to rear animal in Western Europe--Recommendations--Habits of the animal--The hippopotami--dance--How the young one is separated from the mother--How a hippopotamus is removed from the herd--The food of the hippopotamus in general
XLVI.--WILD ANIMALS.
The Serpent--The Boa--Professors to examine medicinal and other properties--Modes of capturing wild beasts--Huntsmen--The iron-work net--The watch-hut--The bait--Dead animals